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Is Zoom picking some other point on an optimization curve, and if so, what's more important to it? Or is it just worse?
by closeparen 6y ago
Is Zoom picking some other point on an optimization curve, and if so, what's more important to it?
Or is it just worse?
- kenhwang 6y agoZoom seems to be optimizing for bandwidth use, and by extension, cost to them. Its typical use case is a shared office internet connection. Discord users are more likely to have a dedicated fast internet connection and doesn't seem to care about profitability at the moment. It's just the difference in designing for a 100/10 connection to yourself vs sharing a 100/100 connection with 20 other people. Zoom reasonably gracefully degrades on choppy/slow connections while Discord becomes straight up unusable.
- closeparen 6y agoAh, this makes sense. I have noticed that Zoom never quite gives up for participants on slow / bursty networks. When something becomes that bad I expect it to be headed towards failure, but Zoom is happy to just sit there at 0.5fps.